Joe Mancuso

Mancuso's refreshingly honest understanding of humble materials such as latex paint, news print, concrete and bricks allows the artist to create elegant art objects from industrial debris. Materials are chosen for their physicality and nature and arranged in grandiose configurations.

The artist's mathematical preparations, rigorous patterning and complex construction techniques appear at odds with the use of found objects, but the artist resolves this paradox in ways that are infinitely varied and enriching. Mancuso uses a restrained palette employing whites, grays, and blacks, with accents of muted reds. The canvases appear built of constructed layers of paint over newsprint. With exacting restraint and considerable understatement Joe Mancuso proves again and again that less is indeed more.